The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-12-22
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GrlAls, l,ZZo cOuVictlOpS, so acqultthls,
1851 mol pros, So quashed and 5000
pending.
Misdemeanors-S,0O indictments, 222
infOrmations, 81 trials, 724 convictions,
264 acquitals, 533 mol pros, l05 quashed
aud ], $40 pen ing.
Total felonies and misdemeanors-123O 6
indictments, 222 iDfo.matiops, 2,87l trials,
1852 convictions, 1903 acquittals, 2,2l4
mol pros, 100 quashed and 1886 pending.
The penalties incurred were as follows:
Death penalties, s.
Life imprisonment, IA.
Total years in penitentiary, 4,03lI.
Average years in penitentiary, 81.
Total fines imposed, $53,4l4.
Total fines RENTED, 81 504.
Total fines collected, $9036.
Total final Judgments or forfeituTes,
$5l,651.
Total forfeitures remitted, $17210.
Totals forfeitures collected, $5,740.
Appeals in felony cases, 246.
Appeals in misdemeauUra, 16.
But few county clerks have reported.
and some district clerks have wholly failed
to report, while others have only reported
one term of court, which makes the tables
incomplete.
The following charters were filed yester-
day:
The Texas Fire, Brick and Tile COM
pany, of Dallas; capital stock, $4,000.
Directors: w. H. CASTOR, R. V. Tompkins,
B. n. Bryant, G. c. Cole, d. A. Paynor.
The Lookhsrt Building and Loan assc-
citation; capital stock, $4,000. Directors:
]. A. Thompson, VIM. M. Hudson, A. R.
Chew, j. W. Campbell, j. B. Holt, John G
Blanks, l.. j. Story, W. M. Steele, A. B.
Stomp.
A county official writes to the attorney
general as follows on the subject of
local option:
Hon. j. s. Hogg:
DEAR SIR-The "local option" law was
adopted in this county last March. Since
said adoption the law has been very
greatly changed by the legislature at lis
last session. As you know, good many
lawyers think that the action of the legis-
lature abrogates the law, 80 far as any
adoption prior to that time is concerned,
and that, in order to put the law in force
county or precinct would have to adopt
it after the act of the legislature went into
effect.
see that the county Judge of Denton
county has so decided in a case that came
before him. don't know what course our
county Judge would take, as the matter
has never been tested. But we feel that,
if the law as it now stands in Wise county
is imperative, we ought to collect the
revenues from parties now engaged In its
sale. While have some doubts about
the matter, am unwilling to take the
responsibility of acting to the extent of
advising that the law is not in effect, and
would prosecute any person found VIC
latiug the law as it now is. So far we
have had no cases since the new law
came in force, aud no person
seems disposed to test the matter
by risking the consequences OF trial. L
would like to have your opinion upon the
subject, and if you think the law is not
now in effect in this county, we should be
collecting the taxes that we are now los,
ing.
done mean to be understood that any
great amount of liquors are being sold In
the county, or that the law is not being
observed. believe it is being fairly
observed by the people, but, under any
kind of law against it, there will be more
or less sold. Please let me hear from
you.
General Hogg advises that the late act in
creasing the penalty for violations of
local option did not revoke local option
in those counties which had adopted it
before the late act took effect. For the
mode of procedure and the penalty to be
inflicted in such cases. see Arts. Is and
II, page of the Penal Code.
The comptroller registered $4,000
Montague county school bonds.
Treasury deposits amounted to $lo,OOO
yesterday.
The com ptroller is sending out inven-
tory blanks for assessments next year.
The charter of the Texas FRIEDRICH
and Tile company, of Dallas, was filed
yesterday with the secretary of state; cap
ital, $4,000. Incorporators, W. II. Gas
ton and others.
Also charter of the Lockhart Building
and Loan association; capital, $4,000.
1ncorporators, j. A. Thompson and 9th
ers.
From Tuesdays Daily
The present chief of the Choctaw ma =
ton was schoolmate of Governor Ross,
at Florence, Ala.
Comptroller Mccall yesterday pur-
chased $4,000 Mills county court house
ana JAIL DOnOS, anu f1OiOVV OOiiau OounUJ
bridge bopds-all as investments of per-
manent school funds.
Treasury deposits yesterday we're
$3.50 for permanent school fund, $3.50
for general revenue, and $500 paid by
Smith county for interest on railroad
subsidy bonds.
Prof. Cooper has gone to San Antonio
to attend the meeting of the directors and
publishers of the Texas School Journal.
The state cIassiier of lands for
Brewster county reports nine sections
mostly at So per acre.
The report of the classifer of lands in
Schleicher county was received yesterday
1t covers 400 sections of land. He reports
no water, and that the land is for the most
part rocky. He assesses it at the min
imum, 81 nm acre.
There was one application for purchase
in Wilbarger county.
There were from the Panhandle section
several applications filed to purchase, re-
purchase and lease small tracts of land in